A continuing look at THT’s special stats leaderboards—this time from the batting perspective.

Billionaires, Bud and the Babe

Who are the league leaders in stuff only The Hardball Times tracks?

Not 10 graphs, some graphs.

J.C. analyzes the predictive power of DIPS and digs a little deeper to examine how much control, if any, pitchers have over hits on balls in play.

It’s a little early in the season to be discussing Win Shares, but here are some of the Win Share figures that merit discussion.

While there is no such thing as a perfect metric to evaluate how well a player is playing absent luck, J.C. thinks there may be a way to get a better grasp on how well players are performing than just relying on the standard raw statistics.

Steve, er, closes his four-part series focusing on modern bullpen usage — how it came to be, and where it might be headed. And he (finally!) gets around to offering answers to those questions he’s been dragging around for three weeks!

A closer look at some of the 2005 individual baseball stats now available on the Hardball Times.

Consider this a pseudo-review of Michael Schell’s Baseball’s All-Time Best Sluggers.